Megamind's Melon?

[massivelyminute]

This thought came to me after watching "Mermaids" on AnimalPlanet tonight. I know that it is fanon for a few people that Megamind's species is semi-aquatic, or amphibious, because of their partnership with Fish as their Minions, for his blue skin, lean swimmers body, and various other reasons. I've come a cross stories where it mentions him being

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[talanigreywolf]

O...M...G! Ya know, that makes like so much sense(specially after a whole bottle of sangria)! After all, the human hair paterning is very similar to aquatic mammals today. I remember watching a show a couple of years ago that speculated that at some point in our apish past, our ancestors flirted with becoming like the ambleocetis (for which all cetacians are descended from). So yeah, why not have Megamind's people have traveled farther down that path then ours :)

[pitbulllady]

He doesn't have any real aquatic animal characteristics, though. His hands and feet are exactly like ours, and would be no better at propelling him through water than ours. Aquatic mammals are either covered in dense, thick oily fur, or they have a thick layer of blubber(fat)underneath their skin, or both, and Megamind has neither. Yes, he has the body of a HUMAN competition swimmer, but that's a far cry from a species that spends most of its life in water. In the movie, the large head was explained by him having a very high IQ. His race more than likely did have a close connection to the ocean(we can see his planet appears to be covered in large oceans, just like ours), but that doesn't mean they lived in it, at least not in the same way that Cetacians and Pinipeds or even Sea Otters do.

pitbulllady

[pitbulllady]

That's more along the lines of what I was thinking-that at some point, his people spent a lot of time ON the water, not IN it, as fishermen/traders, and later genetically engineered some of the fish they encountered to help them. Megamind reminds me of the Phoenicians, who were expert sailors and who had similar builds to his, according to their artwork.

pitbulllady

[joanhello]

I'm with you that his people wouldn't have evolved sonar capability, but they might have genetically engineered it into themselves. If so, there's probably some very special wiring around those lovely violet ears of his, to make sense of incoming sonar signals.

Oh, but this leads to a sad possibility. To really develop that capability, he would need to spend a lot of time in the water while he was growing up, which he obviously wouldn't have done in an Earth prison. By the time he's an adult, it's probably too late. His children might develop the ability, especially if he produces them by cloning himself, but he never will.

[murasaki_yugata]

Interesting idea. Also: "Who would abandon a faceless melon?!"

[filthy_animal]

It's like sonar for fangirls. :U

[massivelyminute]

LOL
Yes, that would be a very convenient adaptation, hmmmm. I imagine it would come in handy...quite often xD

[dal_niente]

I've actually been thinking about this for a little while, too! I'm still not sure what to make of the idea, but I think it's a neat possibility.

[massivelyminute]

Oh cool! Same here. I mean, it sounds very unlikely, but the concept itself is pretty cool :P